[rhelv6-list] Recent changes to RPMforge (fwd)

[Dag Wieers]

Hi,

I wanted to let everyone know that with the release of RHEL6 we changed a 
few things with regards to RPMforge. The most important aspect is that by 
default RPMforge will _not_ replace base packages.

All newer packages in RPMforge that update base package (eg. subversion) 
are now stored in the rpmforge-extras repository, which is disabled by 
default.

This change is effective immediately and affects RHEL2, RHEL3, RHEL4, 
RHEL5 and RHEL6 repositories.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask them on one of our 
mailinglists. Announcement below...

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-- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/
-- dagit linux solutions, info at dagit.net, http://dagit.net/

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com>
To: users at lists.rpmforge.net, packagers at lists.rpmforge.net,
     suggests at lists.rpmforge.net
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:07:43 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Recent changes to RPMforge
Organization: DAGIT Linux Solutions http://dagit.net/

Hi,

RPMforge is a third-party repository for RHEL, CentOS and Scientific Linux. It 
provides add-on RPM packages that increase functionality and productivity for 
both Server and Desktop based environments.

Here is a summary of changes that recently happened to RPMforge.

  = RPMforge provides Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 packages

     With the advent of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, RPMforge provides many
     packages built specifically for RHEL6.


  = RPMforge now consists of more than one repository:

       + rpmforge - packages that _do not_ replace base packages
                    (eg. nagios, wine, vlc, xine, mpg123, ...)
       + rpmforge-extras - newer packages that _do_ replace base packages
                           (eg. lftp, rsync, subversion, ...)
       + rpmforge-testing - alternative test packages
                            (eg. wine-1.3.x, ...)
       + rpmforge-buildtools - packages required for building RPMforge pkgs
                               (eg. bison, make, rpm-macros-rpmforge, ...)

     For convenience, packages belonging to one of the above repositories
     are tagged respectively with rf, rfx, rft and rfb distribution tags.

     This change can result today in unresolved dependencies that did not
     happen in the past (mostly regarding perl packages). In case you have
     such a problem, please report those to one of our mailinglists.

     Users that in the past used RPMforge without special measures to
     protect base packages (yum protectbase or priorities plugins) are
     advised to enable rpmforge-extras once, to update to rfx-tagged
     packages. Afterwards include only those packages with a seperate
     includepkgs= statement in the .repo file.


  = DKMS packages for RHEL5 have been removed

     RPMforge is working closely together with ELRepo, another third-party
     repository specialized in kernel modules (drivers and kernel-related
     functionality). Since their kmod RPM packages are using a modern
     replacement for DKMS that in many situations are superior to DKMS, we
     see no need in providing DKMS packages (especially since they have not
     been maintained for some time).

     Users that have been using DKMS packages from RPMforge on RHEL5 are
     invited to migrate to ELRepo. For more information regarding ELRepo,
     please visit their website at:

       http://elrepo.org/

In case of questions, please resort to the RPMforge mailinglist at:

    http://lists.rpmforge.net/

Kind regards,
-- 
-- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/
-- dagit linux solutions, info at dagit.net, http://dagit.net/

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